The 1st forum, where all the questions will be directly answered by Grandmasters!

ChessMood Family! 
Under this post, I invite you to post your best games that you will play in August
At the end of the month, we will vote to find the Winner who will join our PRO Members team for 1 month for FREE!

Let's go! 

ChessMood Family! 
The one who raises his rating most in this month will join our PRO Members team for 1 month for FREE!

It can be online and offline (but not the rating of tactics). 
To participate you should screenshot your rating the moment you read this post and add it here. 

At the end of the month, who raised his rating most - he wins! 

ChessMood Family!
As we have a very tight-knit community, and many of you help each other, anytime you get help from someone, you can send nice words to that person here. 

At the end of the month together we will vote to find the person who had the most impact on your success (you can't vote for our instructors 🙂 ) 

The Hero of the month will join our PRO Members team for 1 month for Free!

Dear PRO Members! 
This month we have a new nomination!

"The best game with ChessMood openings"

Please post here your games played online or offline when you win with our ChessMood Openings.
At the end of the month we will vote and find the winner, who will get another 1 month of Membership or "Right Mood - Right Move" t-shirt. 

Let's go! 

Dear ChessMood Family! 
Let's add here all our games that we crushed with ChessMood Openings :) 

Hey Champions! 
This gonna be a long post, but very important!

Are you learning the courses now? Are you going to learn or you have finished already? 
In all cases, you may have problems AT FIRST. 

MAY HAVE 

The thing is when you learn these courses, you learn lots of new stuff, very often you learn some openings that you have never played, you are getting out of COMFORT ZONE.
But we grow only when we are uncomfort.  

At first, you may have problems. Don't stop. 

One of my students was playing 1.Nf3,g3... all his life. We switched to e4 and to aggressive chess! 
He dropped his online rating from 2300 to 2200. 
We knew that it would happen, and guess what? After a few weeks, he got 2300 back, and then 2400 and after a month 2500 !!! 

I warn you, it may happen. Don't worry and don't come back to your old openings, thinking that it's not working. Play them a lot. After you get in comfort with your new weapons, you will start to crush everyone! 

@Jay Garrison, tell your story. The same happened to you, right? 

This may happen to anyone of us.

Don't afraid guys, please. The downswing will be just temporary and then it will be a big upswing. 

Victor Korchnoi said - "The fastest way to grow in chess is to learn new openings." 
You learn new openings, you see lots of new ideas, you get out of comfort zone, you implement those ideas, they become yours... And WooW!!! Now you are much stronger than before. 

I am not going to teach you easy openings, traps, that will give you good results at first, but what then? 

So, please, please, please, don't afraid of getting out of comfort Zone. Your results may become worse. But it will be just at first and will be very temporary. After that, its gonna be explosive growth. 

Hey ChessMood Family! 
I have a question for you.

What tips would you offer, when playing with queen against 2 rooks, and what tips when playing with Rooks against Queen.
What general rules are there? 

The best answer will be rewarded :) 

My coach plays this rossolimo for white and when I said him about your courses he again find a very interesting idea white doesnt play Qd2 white plays Qc1 it is against f5 and then he plays a3 Na4 b3 c3 Nb2 and when I chekched it with engine it was 0.08 but when I started blitz games in chess.com i understood that it is very hard to play with black...  So what we must plays with Qc1 and after some moves a3 and then b4?

 I confess - I spend too much time looking at openings. I study one opening - play it at the club and when I lose I switch to something else, and then another,and another,  and after a long time I still haven't picked a repertoire.

Is there a simple, bare-bones repertoire for a club player where I can sit at the board with some confidence, some preparation  - not even an advantage - and just play chess?

I'm in the chess opening rabbit hole and need a commitment to something that isn't overwhelming.

Thanks for any input.

Hello ChessMood Family! 
How are you doing?

Guys, I have a question. 
Do you have books with PGN format, so I can open it with ChessBase? 
Or do you know where I can buy? 

Thanks in advance!

What do you recommend against the London? 

In a recent game, my opponent played 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 g6 3.Nc3 and as Black I got a bad position out of the opening. What do you recommend here?

ChessMood Family! 
Let's introduce ourselves so we know each other and keep growing together! 

1. About yourself
2. Your chess level
3. Your goal  

In ChessMood all our new employees should also pass a test - survive 15 moves against Grandmaster 😂

Lily survived 12 moves, shall we do an exception for her? 🤔

Good day, Avetik GM Grigoryan Here i want to ask some questions, 1)how to avoid making blunder 2) how to stay focus during long time game, im abit flaw during some standard games 3) how to convert advantage from equal position.

I have held back this obvious question for awhile now, ever since GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes' 'Crushing all the Sicilian's Sidelines' came out, hoping that someone else would ask it, but since no one else has, here goes. What does the ChessMood family think of GM Gabuzyan's antidote to GM Avetik's recommendation against the Sicilian, and how should White best meet the challenge. Gabuzyan's antidote goes as follows:

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bc4 Nc6 6.0-0 e6 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nb5 Nge7 9.Bb3 0-0 10.Nbxd4 Na5 11.c4 a6 intending 12.Be3 b5!? Novelty =